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SOFIA, July 13, 2017 – Smaller cities in Bulgaria and Hungary are more business-friendly as they vie to compete with their respective capitals of Sofia and Budapest, a new World Bank Group report find...

Szekesfehervar, HUNGARY, June 27, 2017 – Entrepreneurs in Hungary can get a new business license in a week or less, but it takes eight months to get a new electricity connection, a new World Bank Grou...

Luxembourg, March 6, 2017 - The Vienna Initiative has agreed to establish a Working Group on Capital Markets Union. This follows the European Union’s push to strengthen Capital Markets which will have...

Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. I am delighted to be here. It is very good to be back to an IAIS Annual Meeting and in particular to Asuncion. Since those days during your meeting in Budapest, I...

Date: November 11, 2016Type: Speeches and TranscriptsLanguage: English

Hungary has benefited from rapid income growth over the last two decades. Still, close to one third of its population, and more than 40 percent of children aged 0-17 years remain at risk of poverty or...

WASHINGTON, DC, May 25, 2016 — Targeted investments and effective local action can help eliminate the social and economic gap between Hungary’s poorest citizens and the rest of the society, say three ...

BUDAPEST, April 20, 2016 — A new study will evaluate local business regulations affecting domestic firms in 7 Hungarian cities, announced the World Bank Group and the Hungarian Ministry for National E...

The Roma are one of Europe’s largest ethnic minorities. While many Roma achieve success in their professional and civic lives, far too many others are among the region’s poorest and most vulnerable pe...

WASHINGTON, DC, January 20, 2016 — Ensuring equal opportunities for marginalized Roma is a win-win for Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, says a new World Bank report Being Fair, Faring Bet...

In a series of four reports World Bank researchers analyzed data from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) for Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Slovak Republic to examine the performan...

Warsaw, 19 November 2015 - The eighth Full Forum of the Vienna Initiative assessed key achievements over the past year and proposed an agenda for future cooperation at a meeting hosted by the National...

Europe is facing the biggest inflow of migrants in decades. The number of refugees from conflict zones in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere arriving at southern European shores is rising by the day. The resu...

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